Swansea Quadrant’s Audrey Hughes joins local Assembly Member to celebrate 120 years of Boots in Wale

Electrical Beauty Consultant at Swansea Quadrant store Audrey Hughes, was a special guest along with local Assembly Member, Dai Lloyd at a prestigious event in Cardiff (3 November 2016) where Boots UK celebrated 120 years of care in Wales.

Audrey was chosen by Boots UK to represent colleagues in Swansea on the special occasion which was held at the National Assembly for Wales’s landmark Pierhead building.

Boots, the UK’s leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer, brought its distinctive blue and white logo to its first store in Wales in 1896. Today there are 114 stores and more than 2,800 colleagues working in the heart of communities across Wales and it is one of the largest employers of trained healthcare professionals in the country outside the NHS, offering pharmacy, opticians and hearing care services.

Audrey was among the Boots colleagues who heard a special address by Welsh Government Ministers as well as the Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Boots, Elizabeth Fagan. Other guests included Boots UK’s charity partners, Macmillan Cancer Support and BBC Children in Need as well as representatives from business organisations and from the health sector.

Boots Electrical beauty consultant, Audrey Hughes said:

“I thoroughly enjoyed representing my team in Swansea and being a part of the 120th celebration in Cardiff Bay. It was wonderful to see members of the Welsh Government and the National Assembly showing that they appreciate the work we do in our Boots stores throughout Wales, and to help build better partnerships for the future. It was also great to see some of the Boots memorabilia on display and photos of our stores across the century. I am really proud that Boots has such strong roots in Wales and to see of all the work that we do to support our local community in Swansea being celebrated.”

South Wales West Assembly Member, Dai Lloyd said:

“It was a pleasure to be able to meet Audrey and her colleagues and to hear more of the work that’s done in our Boots stores in Swansea to improve the health of our community. Boots has been a staple feature of our high streets for such a long time and as such has become an important local employer. I wish them well for the future.”

Around one in eight Boots colleagues in Wales has completed more than 25 years’ service at the company, and forty colleagues are celebrating over forty years of service. As well as being an important part of high streets across the nation and playing a leading role in the delivery of front line public health services, Boots has encouraged its colleagues to go further by building stronger links in the communities that they serve every day, and offering both practical and fundraising support for local charity partners.